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IndyColtsFan said:
My neighborhood isn't a ghetto.
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Looks pretty ghetto to me.

Abandoned list is 31 pages long and it only goes to November 2011.

I bet there is a lot more now.

http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPW/RebuildIndy/Projects/Pages/AbandonedHousing.aspx

Unmaintained properties pose a threat to surrounding homes, neighborhoods and ultimately our City’s public safety. In addition to being structurally unsafe, abandoned and vacant properties often lure criminal activity.

In order to preserve and enhance the safety of our community, the City of Indianapolis is committed to removing 2,000 abandoned homes by the end of 2012.

The Indy Land Bank seeks to acquire abandoned proprieties within Marion County and make them available for redevelopment. Through the Indy Land Bank, the City of Indianapolis will return troubled properties to productive and viable use, eliminate safety problem areas and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
Public input is essential to making sure that abandoned homes throughout the City are identified and properly addressed.


http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPW/R...ments/Abandoned Structure List_11.15.2011.pdf
 
dmcowen674 said:
Looks pretty ghetto to me.

Abandoned list is 31 pages long and it only goes to November 2011.

I bet there is a lot more now.

http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPW/RebuildIndy/Projects/Pages/AbandonedHousing.aspx

Unmaintained properties pose a threat to surrounding homes, neighborhoods and ultimately our City’s public safety. In addition to being structurally unsafe, abandoned and vacant properties often lure criminal activity.

In order to preserve and enhance the safety of our community, the City of Indianapolis is committed to removing 2,000 abandoned homes by the end of 2012.

The Indy Land Bank seeks to acquire abandoned proprieties within Marion County and make them available for redevelopment. Through the Indy Land Bank, the City of Indianapolis will return troubled properties to productive and viable use, eliminate safety problem areas and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
Public input is essential to making sure that abandoned homes throughout the City are identified and properly addressed.


http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPW/R...ments/Abandoned Structure List_11.15.2011.pdf
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I don't live in the Indy city limits. Try again.
 
Elgin is a sad story.
So many awesome late 1800s houses in the historic district, yet many of them in such horrible states of disrepair. The city has a ton of history, but it's pretty much been on a downward spiral for decades. There was a resurgence that ended around 2006 or 2007....
 
Those look like the apartments on the west side just off of lake street. Sadly Elgin is declining. This is the kind of place that lately I can get a citation for someone being able to see my trashcans from the street but the open dumpsters down the block are fine. Mean while there is just plain trash blowing down the street. Comment code enforcement gave me for the cans: "They need to be stored away from site and in such a way that garbage cannot blow out of them."

Right. So why not go fine the apartment complexes nearish me that let bags of trash just blow down the street again? I just <3 throwing away 2 bags of garbage for products I don't use and sometimes have never heard of. Esp since they only allow you one can now.

I am so ready to move out of this area if it hadn't been hit so hard by house prices. <Political>I actually made the mistake of actually getting a 30 year fixed and paying my mortgage, being fiscally mature and I am upside down by almost 50%.</Political>
 
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BurnItDwn said:
Elgin is a sad story.
So many awesome late 1800s houses in the historic district, yet many of them in such horrible states of disrepair. The city has a ton of history, but it's pretty much been on a downward spiral for decades. There was a resurgence that ended around 2006 or 2007....
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You can't even read the history anymore.

A month ago someone went around town and stole all the Historical markers to sell for the scrap metal money.

Costs $2,000 a marker and obviously not in the budget so now just poles sticking up
 
imagoon said:
Those look like the apartments on the west side just off of lake street. Sadly Elgin is declining. This is the kind of place that lately I can get a citation for someone being able to see my trashcans from the street but the open dumpsters down the block are fine. Mean while there is just plain trash blowing down the street. Comment code enforcement gave me for the cans: "They need to be stored away from site and in such a way that garbage cannot blow out of them."

Right. So why not go fine the apartment complexes nearish me that let bags of trash just blow down the street again? I just <3 throwing away 2 bags of garbage for products I don't use and sometimes have never heard of. Esp since they only allow you one can now.

I am so ready to move out of this area if it hadn't been hit so hard by house prices. <Political>I actually made the mistake of actually getting a 30 year fixed and paying my mortgage, being fiscally mature and I am upside down by almost 50%.</Political>
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So you, fallenhero and I are neighbors

There are a few pubs on McLean, could meet and have beer.
 
dmcowen674 said:
So you, fallenhero and I are neighbors

There are a few pubs on McLean, could meet and have beer.
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Not sure how that would work.... I am scared of P&N.... :X

I had the luck of having my address in the paper because one of those drug dealers down there managed to run a couple of block and chose to try and sneak out of the area through my backyard. I was at the sleep at the time and was woken up to:

"Freeze!"
"Get on the ground now!"
"He is making a run for it"
Sounds of what sounded like one guy being tackled by 3-4 people... several more officers running up the side of the house. Sound of one guy hitting the ground in quite non-flattering way face down, cop with a knee if his back and cuffing the guy.

I decided to get up and look outside after all the flashlights stopped reflecting in my window and looked out at the street and counted 27 squad cars up and down my street and the next one.

Funny thing is my parents are convinced I live in the ghetto (I don't the ghetto is close enough that every so often it spills over the 4-5 blocks, maybe semi annually.) They recently had a murder 3 blocks away.

I personally want to gtfo. Out of IL even.
 
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